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Are you being serious? Have you seen facebook groups or discord? Both are amazing apps. Facebook groups is better than most native apps I see.

Just because the tool isn't the right tool for your job means nothing about how good it is. graph databases aren't the best at searching large singular tables, but that doesn't make them useless.

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I could be wrong, but I don't think Discord uses React Native; I think it just uses Cordova or one of the web hybrid platforms. And it definitely shows: performance is less than stellar, and it definitely doesn't feel like a native app to me (on Android, at least).

Edit: It looks like the iOS version is built using React Native, but the Android one is not. I can't comment on the iOS version as I've never used it.

The Android app is fully native because Android phones tend to have not have the single thread performance that js needs.

Do you have a source for this? Everything I'm finding suggests that the Android app is not native, and last time I used it (a couple months ago), it definitely didn't feel native, and performance was sub-par.

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